My first hydro combine was 105 miles from home when I bought it. Gleaner F3.
Thought it over, and landed the bean head on a trailer, put the corn head on the combine. Was fun learning how a hydro works at 18-20mph on pavement, but after the first 20 miles or so got the hang of it. ;) I know they get real light if you need to slow down fast, but can at least plan for that.
Got the Gleaner L3 hydro from 70 miles away, trailered the bean head and there was no corn head. I knew I was in for a rough day, a combine without a head is miserable to road. They get real bouncy and twitchy. Hard to control. The extra width of the L series put the right wheels right on the pavement/gravel seam and the roads I was on were not well shouldered. After 2 miles I pulled in a driveway and looked over the map again. Found 90% gravel roads to drive home on, it was terrible on paved road! Yikes! Didn't help that the 'clear day forecast' started out with a fog that turned into a mist for the first hour. Wipers didn't work.
It's always an adventure.
I'm not exactly sure how you hooked that head in the air onto the combine, you would have had to drop the combine side of the head down a few feet to make the angles work? That can get scary unless you got most of it jacked back down fairly low little by little.
On my F3 I got a head on a car trailer by digging the one side of wheels down low, axle about on the dirt on that side, and then blocking the head so it came off. That worked pretty good.
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